Back in April, AT&T said that Houston was one of 100 cities where it was considering launching its GigaPower Network, a Gigabit Ethernet service that would offer ultra-fast Internet, voice phone and cable TV.

Today, the company is announcing that GigaPower will indeed be available in the Houston area – though it’s not yet saying when, or exactly where.

Back when AT&T, Verizon and other major wireless carriers quit offering unlimited data accounts to new customers and began urging current customers to move to shared plans, there was much anguish and gnashing of teeth. But based on a new study from the Government Accounting Office, the spirit of wireless customers has been broken – they’ve accepted data limits.

Don’t want your home network to host a public Wi-Fi hotspot on behalf of Comcast? You can disable that feature, or you can take a more permanent approach – bring your own modem and router to the party. …

Comcast has turned on the Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots in Houston that I wrote about in today’s Houston Chronicle. Approximately 50,000 of the residential Arris Touchstone Telephony Wireless Gateway Modems …

One thing Time Warner Cable Internet customers don’t have to worry about is a limit on how much data they use each month. Most of the company’s Internet service plans include unlimited data. But if Comcast’s plan to buy TWC for $45.2 billion goes through, that could change. …